Minnetonka Ninth-Graders Score Well on GRAD Writing Test

Ninety-six percent of Minnetonka ninth-graders passed the Graduation-Required Assessment for Diploma (GRAD) writing test on their first attempt with an average score of 3.83. These results beat the statewide results of an 89 percent passing rate and average score of 3.5.

This is the first year students are required to take and pass the GRAD writing test in order to graduate from high school. The GRAD replaced the Basic Skills Test (BST).

Recent Minnetonka High School graduate Lauren Bartelt was honored this month by Minnesota Education Commissioner Alice Seagren for her achievement in theater arts. Bartelt was among 27 high school students to receive Minnesota Scholars of Distinction awards. The award honors students who perform at a highly rigorous level in their specialty area – theater arts, mathematics, science, applied geography or leadership.

How’s this for a long-range forecast?

There will be a storm in Victoria on July 7.

That is, the Chanhassen High School’s booster club, the “Storm Chasers,” host its inaugural fundraiser on Monday, July 7 at Deer Run Golf Club.

Lunch and driving range session begins at 11 a.m., with golf – scramble format with no handicaps – beginning at noon with a shotgun start.

A dinner, awards and silent auction is set for 6 p.m.

How’s this for a long-range forecast?

There will be a storm in Victoria on July 7.

That is, the Chanhassen High School’s booster club, the “Storm Chasers,” host its inaugural fundraiser on Monday, July 7 at Deer Run Golf Club.

Lunch and driving range session begins at 11 a.m., with golf – scramble format with no handicaps – beginning at noon with a shotgun start.

A dinner, awards and silent auction is set for 6 p.m.

 Chaska Middle School West Honor Roll4^th Quarter Grade 6 “A”

By Chuck Friedbauer

Chaska Middle School East B Honor Roll- Quarter 4  6^th Grade 

Chaska Middle School East A Honor Roll- Quarter 4

6^th Grade

Chase Anderson, Alec Arnold, Josh Arnst, Megan Ashpole, Kendall Baab,
Georgia Bebler, Zachery Bell, Macy Beltz, Jessie Berry, Corey Binger, Charles Bjork, Katherine Blood, Taylar Bollaert, Destinee Bouavichith, Haley Brahmbhatt,

By Forrest Adams

From the gas pump to the lunchroom, rising prices are ubiquitous.

Students and by extension their parents will be paying more for school lunches in the Minnetonka School District next school year.

The cost of delivering food is up, and the price of food is up- a double whammy. At their May meeting, the Minnetonka School Board approved a 15-cent increase in the price of lunches in the elementary, middle and high schools.

CHANHASSEN, MN – JUNE 9, 2008 -- Students at Chapel Hill Academy in Chanhassen performed on average one to five years above grade level on the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT), a national standardized test administered to the school’s first through eighth graders in April.